Paralegal Certificate

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Paralegal education prepares the student to assist with substantive legal work under the supervision of an attorney or to work in a law-related setting such as in corporate compliance, contracts administration, and the court system. Hamline’s Paralegal Certificate does not lead to licensure as an attorney or to the practice of law.

Objectives

(1) To provide an American Bar Association-approved program with a curriculum leading to a paralegal certificate; (2) to provide a liberal arts based education for undergraduate paralegal students; (3) to develop in each paralegal student superior writing, speaking, and analytical skills; (4) to offer high quality specific legal training to liberal arts students and bachelor’s degree holders seeking to become paralegals; and (5) to instill respect for legal and practical values and ethics.

This program is open to undergraduate students in all majors and to post-baccalaureate students.

Certificate Requirements

Required courses

Legal specialty courses*

Eight (8) additional credits of from the following list of legal specialty courses:

Elective courses

Four (4) credits of additional coursework from all legal studies legal specialty courses listed above or the following interdisciplinary law-related courses:

Note

Hamline legal specialty courses are approved by the American Bar Association pursuant to its standards for course offered in “accelerated format” by combining class time with outside of class learning experience.